Mesozoic Flashcards
1
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Amniote animals
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- Animals that lay down eggs
- Turtles
- Can be reptiles, mammals or birds
2
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Albumen
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- Supplies nutrients and water
- Present in amniotic eggs
3
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Anapsid
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- Most primitive reptiles
- No temporal arch
- Turtles
4
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Allantois
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- Turtles
- Sac-like structure involved in nutrition
- Is webbed with blood vessels
5
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Central cell
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- The cell in the venter of the archegonium
- Produces the egg
- Apple tree
6
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Cretaceous
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- Name derived from Latin chalk
- Part of Mesozoic era
- Comes after Jurassic
7
Q
Endosperm
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- In most flowering plants
- Surrounds the embryo
- Provides nutrition from starch
8
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Double fertilization
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- Present in angiosperms
- One female gametophytes with two male gametes.
- Only one sperm fertilizes the egg
9
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Keratin
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- Fibrous structural protein
- ## Highly insoluble
10
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Megaspore
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- Gametophyte in heterosporous plants
- Seed plants
- is produced inside the nucellus of the ovule
11
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Microsporangium
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- Ferns
- Male gametophytes
12
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Stigma
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Receives pollen
13
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Pollen
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- Powder with protected microgametophytes
- Made of sporopollenin
- Yellow
14
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Pollen tube
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- Transport of male gamet cells to the ovules
15
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Theropods
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- Group of Dinosaurs
- Carnivorous
- Appeared in Triassic
